Chapter Summaries

At Uta’s concert opening on Sabaody, Law calmed a dispute between fan groups while Rosinante arrived with Baby 5, who hurried off to find Law. In the backstage room, Shanks found Gordon collapsed, and Gordon urgently told him to stop Uta as she was about to take the stage.

• Law used ROOM to separate two arguing fan groups and restore order.
• Bepo recognized Law, tearfully praised his devotion to Uta, and received a reassuring pat from him.
• Rosinante arrived at Sabaody with Baby 5 and teased her about coming to see Law.
• Rosinante told Baby 5 to attend to her real business, and she hurried away toward the concert venue.
• Shanks found Gordon collapsed in the backstage room, and Gordon urgently told him to stop Uta.

Uta’s concert on Sabaody turned into a worldwide crisis as her singing began drawing people into an eternal dream. Shanks realized the danger backstage, while Law, Nami, and Luffy noticed the audience changing as the song spread across the world.

• Uta appeared onstage and began a spectacular performance as fans, Nami, Luffy, Law, and Baby 5 watched.
• Gordon warned Shanks that Uta planned to use the Sing-Sing Fruit to pull humanity into an eternal dream and turn everyone into the living dead.
• The concertgoers began moving mechanically and losing focus, and Law detected energy winding through the crowd with ROOM.
• Nami and Luffy recognized that something was wrong as the audience’s smiles stiffened around them.
• The broadcast spread Uta’s influence around the world, freezing listeners in homes, city squares, and marine posts.
• Uta declared that she would begin a new era as her song enveloped the world.

Uta used her singing to control the concert crowd and battled Luffy and the others, while Shanks confronted her over leaving her on Elegia. Her song then incapacitated the venue, but Rosinante remained awake and arrived amid the fallen crowd.

• Uta controlled the audience and Navy soldiers with her singing, forcing Luffy, Nami, Law, Baby 5, Usopp, and Sanji to fight through them without killing them.
• Luffy charged Uta, but Shanks intercepted him and pleaded with Uta to stop.
• Uta accused Shanks of abandoning her on Elegia and declared she would create a peaceful world through eternal dreams.
• Uta unleashed the full power of the Sing-Sing Fruit, knocking out the crowd, Navy Elite, and Luffy's group as they entered her mental world.
• Rosinante arrived at the silent venue, found Law and Baby 5 unconscious, and playfully interlocked their hands.

Uta used her Sing-Sing Fruit to trap Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Law, Baby 5, and Shanks in her dream world, where Sleepless Mushrooms let her keep singing at the cost of her life. As the crew fought to stop her, Shanks turned against Luffy to protect his daughter, leaving Uta free to tighten her hold over the battlefield.

• Shanks warned Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Law, and Baby 5 that Uta's dream world would only end when she ran out of strength, and Law explained that Sleepless Mushrooms would drive her mad and eventually kill her.
• Uta revealed she had eaten the mushrooms so she could sing without end, and Law urged the others to defeat her before her song drew the whole world into the dream.
• Luffy, Sanji, Nami, Usopp, Baby 5, and Law attacked Uta together, and Luffy cracked her shield with a lightning-charged strike.
• Shanks intercepted Luffy's next attack, and he and Luffy clashed after Shanks refused to let him hurt Uta.
• Uta bound Nami, Law, Usopp, Baby 5, and Sanji with chains of musical notes while Luffy and Shanks continued fighting over whether to stop her.

Law used his awakened Op-Op Fruit to sever Uta from the space she controlled, shattering her mental world and leaving her badly injured. As Law and the others rushed to save her, Uta began humming unconsciously, and her song halted the collapse and started gathering the dream’s fragments again.

• Shanks and Luffy continued their battle while Nami, Baby 5, Sanji, and Usopp opened a path for Law through Uta’s storm of musical notes.
• Law expanded ROOM and used R—sever to cut Uta and the space she controlled, causing the mental world to break apart.
• Luffy struck Shanks with Dragon Bone: Meteor and sent him crashing through the golden castle.
• Law explained that he had not killed Uta and that she might survive if the Sleepless Mushroom’s toxins had not fully taken hold, so Nami carried the group toward her on a cloud boat.
• Uta began humming while lying on the ground, stopping the world’s collapse and drawing broken fragments of the dream together.
• Shanks heard the melody and desperately shouted for Uta to stop singing.

Tot Musica emerged in Uta’s mental world and transformed into its complete form as Uta was forced to sing. Rosinante’s Calm-Calm Fruit silenced the real-world concert and shattered the dream, leaving the venue muted.

• Tot Musica appeared in Uta’s mental world, and Shanks recognized it as the demon god that destroyed Elegia.
• Tot Musica forced Uta to sing its second and third movements, draining her life as it transformed into its complete form.
• Shanks’s Divine Departure struck Tot Musica, but the demon casually shattered the slash.
• Rosinante’s voice reached Law from the void, and his intervention caused the dream space to collapse.
• The group’s consciousness returned to the Sabaody concert venue, where Rosinante used his Calm-Calm Fruit to silence all sound.

Rosinante used the Calm-Calm Fruit to erase Tot Musica and stop Uta’s destructive song, then Shanks tried to kill Luffy to conceal what had happened. Law and Nami obscured the stage, and the Navy’s official story hid the truth from the audience.

• Rosinante opened a domain of silence that suppressed Tot Musica’s song and erased its lingering shadow.
• Uta remained unconscious but alive after the silence faded, and Rosinante told Shanks that only two minutes had passed in the real world.
• Rosinante warned Shanks that Morgans would handle the live footage and that he needed to manage the situation.
• Shanks charged at Luffy, but Nami covered the stage in mist while Law warped the area with ROOM, and an explosion shook Sabaody Archipelago.
• Usopp and Sanji told the crowd the Navy had subdued an attacker, and the Navy later announced that Uta’s concert had been postponed after an infiltrator attacked.

Morgans concealed the concert incident from the World Government and rewrote the news to hide the danger Uta had caused. In the Sabaody concert rest room, Law treated Uta as Shanks and the Marines clashed over her fate, until an unexpected voice behind Shanks stopped the confrontation.

• Morgans obeyed a mysterious caller's warning about the concert, then told the World Government that an unknown power had disrupted the live broadcast.
• Morgans changed his headline to claim Uta had survived an assassination attempt and that Marines had subdued the culprit.
• Law cleared the Sleepless Mushroom toxins from Uta and warned Shanks that the Marines would not let him take her away.
• Gordon defended Uta as a kind but inexperienced child, while Rosinante challenged Shanks to guarantee she would not endanger the world again.
• Shanks reached for Griffon as Luffy, Sanji, and Law prepared to fight, but a mocking voice behind him made him freeze.

Roy removed Tot Musica from Uta and ordered her to spend a year under Marine instruction. Uta reconciled with Shanks before falling asleep again, and Shanks met Roy outside the concert venue to ask what Roy wanted from him.

• Roy tore Tot Musica's lingering shadow from Uta and declared that she had to spend a year under the Marines' instruction.
• Uta woke and told Shanks she remembered causing the island's destruction and had long been burdened by anger and guilt.
• Shanks comforted Uta and affirmed that he would always be her father, and she embraced him and called him Father before falling asleep.
• Shanks asked Gordon to take care of Uta, then left the venue and found Roy waiting outside.
• Shanks asked Roy what he needed him to do, and Roy asked why Shanks thought he had spared him.

Roy revealed that Dragon saved Shanks at God Valley after Saint Garling attacked Shanks’ mother, while Shanks’ older brother was taken by the Celestial Dragons. Shanks recovered from the shock, agreed to act for Roy, and was told to return to the Holy Land.

• Roy showed Shanks a photograph of him as a baby and asked whether he wanted to know how he survived God Valley.
• Roy told Shanks that Dragon had hidden him in a treasure chest, and explained that Saint Garling killed Shanks’ mother and the Celestial Dragons took his older brother.
• Shanks broke down over the revelations, but Roy rebuked him and said Dragon had chosen him as salvation.
• Shanks drew strength from memories of his companions and Uta, then agreed to do what Roy wanted while insisting their grudge remained unsettled.
• Roy told Shanks to return to the Holy Land and said the task would give him an opportunity to transform.

Roy sent Shanks back to the Holy Land to rejoin the Holy Knights and urged him to grow stronger, while revealing to Dragon his intention to overturn the world. Shanks returned to Mary Geoise unharmed and was summoned before the Five Elders, where Saint Figarland Garling suspected something was wrong.

• Roy told Shanks to return to the Holy Land and rejoin the Holy Knights, saying he could become their supreme commander, and said someone else would deal with the people from 'Flame'.
• Shanks recalled his losses and vowed not to back down again, even if Roy was using him, and to become stronger.
• Roy called Monkey D. Dragon, dismissed his offer of help, and declared that he intended to overturn the world if he could protect everyone.
• Dragon recalled the formidable Haki of Sengoku, Garp, and Zephyr and said that they might be able to turn the Holy Land upside down.
• The next day, Shanks returned to Mary Geoise unharmed and was summoned before the Five Elders, while Saint Figarland Garling wondered how Roy had let him go.

Shanks returned to Mary Geoise and agreed to accept that lord’s power again, then reunited with Uta and sent her to Marineford to study under Tsuru. At Marineford, Roy and the others prepared for the arrival of Roy’s parents, Rock and Airin.

• Shanks told the Five Elders that Roy had allowed him to return and declared that he would accept that lord’s power again.
• Shanks reunited with Uta at Sabaody, showed her his restored arm, and asked Gordon to take her to Marineford to study with Tsuru.
• Uta agreed to go with Gordon and vowed to become someone her father could be proud of while waiting for his return.
• Roy told Sengoku and Law that Garp had gone to bring Roy’s parents to Marineford without letting Roy pick them up.
• Ace and Luffy hurried to put on their Marine uniforms so they would look presentable when Rock and Airin arrived.

Roy welcomed his parents, Rock and Airin, to Marineford alongside Garp, Zephyr, and the new generation of Marines. The reunion ended with Rock and Airin expressing pride in Roy and his grandsons as the Marines hailed them.

• Roy and the new generation assembled at Marineford to welcome Garp, Zephyr, Rock, and Airin.
• Garp and Zephyr arrived by warship with Rock and Airin, and thousands of Marines greeted the visitors.
• Airin embraced Roy, while Rock proudly struck his son's arm and praised him as the Navy War God.
• Luffy and Ace rushed to greet their grandparents, and Airin embraced them and praised them as Marines.
• Rock and Airin told Roy they were proud of him as the Marines cheered for the family.

Roy reunited with his parents at Marineford and brought them to his home for a lively family gathering with his companions. As the day ended, Roy was surrounded by the warmth of family rather than the responsibilities of his rank.

• Garp, Zephyr, and Sengoku watched Roy reunite with his parents, then Garp teased Sengoku until they nearly came to blows and Zephyr tried to stop them.
• Rock and Airin were surprised by the Marines’ bickering veterans, and Roy reassured them before leading them and the new generation away from the harbor.
• Tsuru arrived with a stack of documents and went to intervene in the veterans’ quarrel.
• At Roy’s residence, Meierbeier, Sanji, and Baby 5 prepared a feast while Roy’s companions arranged the dining room and stole food.
• Airin fussed over Roy and Rock reminded him that he was their son, while the family and companions shared stories, food, and laughter through the night.

Roy’s family reunion in Marineford was interrupted by no conflict, while Teach followed an inexplicable pull to Zou and landed the Blackbeard Adventure Group on Zunesha. Zunesha sensed that Teach resembled someone familiar but felt incompatible, and remained uncertain what his arrival meant.

• Airin asked Roy whether he had feelings for someone, and the family teased him when he tried to change the subject.
• Teach arrived near the Mokomo Dukedom aboard the Blackbeard Adventure Group’s ship, drawn there by a mysterious power that had awakened after he ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.
• Teach and his officers spotted Zunesha, and Zunesha sensed a presence in Teach that resembled His but was incompatible.
• A Knock Up Stream launched the ship into the sky, and Teach used the Swamp-Swamp Fruit to cushion its landing on Zunesha’s back.
• The Blackbeard Adventure Group celebrated reaching Zunesha as Zunesha wondered whether Teach’s presence signaled calamity or a new future.

Blackbeard and his crew arrived at the Mokomo Dukedom, where Cat Viper confronted them after they attacked his scouts. Their clash escalated into a battle between the Mink Tribe and Teach’s group, and two years later the story shifted to Roy working at Marine Headquarters.

• Cat Viper sent Blackback and Rody with the Musketeer Squad to investigate the crash, but they did not return.
• Teach arrived with Lafitte, Van Augur, Jesus Burgess, and Doc Q, and admitted he had attacked Blackback and Rody.
• Cat Viper stabbed Teach, but Teach’s body became a dark mire and healed, revealing his Devil Fruit power.
• Teach invited the Mink Tribe to join him, and Cat Viper refused, saying they were waiting for someone else.
• Cat Viper transformed into Sulong and fought Teach as the Mink Tribe and the Blackbeard Adventure Group clashed across Zunesha’s back.
• Two years later, Roy reviewed documents in his Marine Headquarters office at Marineford.

Two years after pirates nearly vanished, Roy and Law discussed the rise of armed adventure groups and growing tensions with the World Government. Ace and Luffy headed for Hachinosu to confront Teach, who was furious that one of his men had attacked a Marine-supported Sea Train.

• Law told Roy that pirates had nearly disappeared, but the Blackbeard Adventure Group and other armed forces were expanding while countries turned toward the Marines instead of paying Heavenly Tribute.
• Roy noted that Shanks had become Commander of the Holy Knights and learned that Saint Shamrock had secretly gone to Elbaf; he said Elbaf's new king would not indulge him.
• Ace told Luffy that Teach had reclaimed Hachinosu and planned to use it as a base, and that Zoro and Kuina were joining their trip to confront him.
• Teach seized and beat a squad leader for attacking a Sea Train cargo ship, warning his followers that the Marines would treat them like pirates if they harmed the public welfare project.

Teach warned his officers against arrogance and ordered Van Augur to increase patrols, fearing the Navy would target them. On Kuraigana Island, Mihawk sensed a newcomer and went to the harbor, where he recognized a swordsman and greeted him after years apart.

• Lafitte and the other officers debated the Navy's response to Teach's attack on a civilian cargo ship, while Teach threatened to bury anyone who disobeyed his rules.
• After the officers left, Teach told Van Augur that his crew had grown arrogant and ordered increased patrols around the island.
• Mihawk and Perona recalled how Zoro and Kuina had trained and fought on Kuraigana Island for the past two years.
• Mihawk sensed a familiar presence arriving on the island, grabbed Yoru, and headed for the harbor with Perona following.
• At the harbor, Mihawk and Perona saw a two-handed swordsman holding a longsword, and Mihawk greeted him with, “It's been a long time.”

Saint Figarland Shanks reunited with Mihawk on Kuraigana Island, and the two fought a devastating duel before sharing wine at the castle. Shanks warned that the seas were heading toward chaos and hinted that a new flag might rise after the Seven Warlords of the Sea system collapsed, leaving Mihawk's response unstated.

• Shanks arrived at Kuraigana Island, and Mihawk drew Yoru and challenged him to fight.
• Mihawk and Shanks clashed in a fierce duel that devastated the harbor and sent enormous waves toward nearby ships.
• At the castle, Perona complained about the harbor's destruction while Shanks promised to have it repaired.
• Mihawk asked why Shanks had come, and Shanks warned that the seas were approaching chaos and asked what Mihawk would do.
• Mihawk said he would not be troubled by the possible abolition of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system and remained committed to pursuing swordsmanship.
• Shanks suggested that a new flag might be pieced together from the ruins after the system collapsed, and Mihawk gave no answer.

Mihawk sent Perona back to warn Moria to stay out of trouble, while Loki confronted Saint Figarland Shamrock and Maffey in Elbaf. Shamrock withdrew after their auras clashed, leaving Loki eager for a fight.

• Mihawk told Perona to return to the Florian Triangle and warn Moria not to wander into danger.
• Perona recalled how Kuma had flattened Moria and Oars during their shadow-fusion experiment, then sent her to the ghost island.
• Shamrock offered Loki everything he wanted if he joined the Holy Knights, but Loki rejected him and provoked him by asking about Shanks.
• Loki and Shamrock's auras collided, alerting Gaban and making Jaguar D. Saul warn that a storm might be coming to Elbaf.
• Shamrock withdrew with a warning, and Loki complained that he still had not gotten to raise hell.